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r18tdi · #**2361** Posted **Aug 26, 2020, 10:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chi-Sky21

Hope you keep your job for the Rainforest development!

A bit OT, but I wonder how tall they could at Rainforest? It's not a very large site, but I could see something the size of 60 W. Erie or 8 E. Huron going in there.

LouisVanDerWright · #**2362** Posted **Aug 27, 2020, 1:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by marothisu

I believe there might have been plans not long ago. I have a friend who used to own an eatery right there (I also used to live right near there). This was back probably more like 2012 or 2013 IIRC, but he told me the buildings were going to get torn down and something was going to be built there. I was told by another restaurant owner nearby, but not in the same buildings, the same thing.

Never happened of course..

Loyola owns it, they have long term plans to redevelop that entire block. Hopefully the nice victorian building on the corner doesn't fall prey to the institutional preservation trap.

harryc · #**2363** Posted **Aug 28, 2020, 11:38 PM**

Aug 24

Looking N up State st.

Looking N up Dearborn st.

Chi-Sky21 · #**2364** Posted **Aug 29, 2020, 12:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

Loyola owns it, they have long term plans to redevelop that entire block. Hopefully the nice victorian building on the corner doesn't fall prey to the institutional preservation trap.

Used to live right at that corner in the red brick low rise. Loyola does own it but i bet they end up selling it and then building elsewhere with the money....new law school building on on Pearson would be my guess....?

LouisVanDerWright · #**2365** Posted **Aug 29, 2020, 2:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chi-Sky21

Used to live right at that corner in the red brick low rise. Loyola does own it but i bet they end up selling it and then building elsewhere with the money....new law school building on on Pearson would be my guess....?

Not a chance, they know what they are sitting on. If anything they would develop it in partnership with New Castle like they did on the old bookstore site at State and Elm. They would make way more money that way. They just renovated that entire building at the SE corner of Wabash and Pearson a few years ago to be a dedicated law school. They have no such need in the near term.

Chi-Sky21 · #**2366** Posted **Aug 29, 2020, 1:36 PM**

State and Elm? Thought they sold their parcel on Chestnut and then they built the new Quinlan business school (Schreiber Center) on Pearson by doing that. The Law school now moved into where the business school used to be. A fantastic library at the top of that building.

Bombardier · #**2367** Posted **Aug 30, 2020, 1:54 PM**

The shorter of the two remaining cranes is jumping right now.

r18tdi · #**2368** Posted **Sep 2, 2020, 12:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by Bombardier

The shorter of the two remaining cranes is jumping right now.

That Tower A crane has to be pretty close too. Probably within the week.

rgarri4 · #**2369** Posted **Sep 2, 2020, 2:04 AM**

Taken today by me. Cladding starting on the second tower.

KWillChicago · #**2370** Posted **Sep 2, 2020, 11:59 AM**

^Does the taller tower have angled fins like this or is it all straight?

rgarri4 · #**2371** Posted **Sep 2, 2020, 6:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by KWillChicago

^Does the taller tower have angled fins like this or is it all straight?

All straight.

Blahshead · #**2372** Posted **Sep 3, 2020, 12:44 AM**

That's definitely not the texture we were all expecting, but this looks promising. First impression -- I like it!

PittsburghPA · #**2373** Posted **Sep 7, 2020, 1:43 PM**

View from Xavier apartments

harryc · #**2374** Posted **Sep 7, 2020, 2:01 PM**

Aug 31

Sept 5

marothisu · #**2375** Posted **Sep 7, 2020, 4:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by cityslickerrr

They only broke ground on this in late Oct. 2019?!

It looks like they're 40 (?) stories in the air in less than a year?! Wow just wow.

Thank you for the incredible photos.

Big building - I count that they're up 32 or 33 floors. So at this rate they'll probably be half way up (around 40 floors) next month sometime, right?